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Re:JetKVM – Control any computer remotely by neilv on Monday October 27, 2025 @04:05PM (#45725651)
True. Small outfits can be a pretty big category of companies that don't have a fully locked-down enterprise security environment with clout who can insist that everything like that racked and put under their control.

Homelabbers tend to like rackmount. (I've owned multiple servers with such dedicated remote management/access hardware built in.)

JetKVM seems designed to be more a shadow IT at individual desks solution, for use at companies that don't prohibit and actively police that.

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Re:JetKVM – Control any computer remotely by pseudalopex on Monday October 27, 2025 @05:08PM (#45726321)
Home lab is a subset of hobbyists. And many of them like mini PCs.
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Re:JetKVM – Control any computer remotely by wkat4242 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:09AM (#45730643)
Yes me too. A lot of my stuff is NUCs and similar. Several of those nice ultra-cheap N100s. Amazing stuff
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Re:JetKVM – Control any computer remotely by fukka42 on Monday October 27, 2025 @09:56PM (#45728495)
I have a "server" at home. It's just an old desktop. I use a PiKVM (similar to JetKVM) to manage it remotely when the kernel crashes or I fuck up the boot. It happens rarely, but it's nice I can just fix things remotely.

The PiKVM runs wireguard so it's reasonably secure. I assume JetKVM can do the same.

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Re:JetKVM – Control any computer remotely by DonHopkins on Monday October 27, 2025 @11:07PM (#45728856)
"Homelabbers" reminds me of the inimitable Rich Morin's and Vicki Brown's "Canta Forda Computer Lab". (Say it out loud!)

https://web.archive.org/web/20200312000527/http://www.cfcl.c...

>We get occasional inquiries about our name. In case you are wondering, it is a pun on "Can't afford a computer laboratory". (We have plenty of computers, to be sure, but the ideal computer laboratory will always be beyond our reach. :-)

>Inspiration for the name was drawn from Walker A. Tompkins, a family friend and prolific writer (of adventures, history, and westerns). Mr. Tompkins used the name "Canta Forda Rancho" for his home in Santa Barbara, CA.

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